Awake: It's Your Turn by Angelo Dilullo

Author:Angelo Dilullo [Dilullo, Angelo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-12T23:00:00+00:00

This is how it goes. The VR world, as you may have guessed, is the world of thought and imagination. The VR world isn’t being imposed upon us; we are creating it ourselves moment to moment. But are we? Do we specifically remember the point in time when we decided to forego actual life for this internal reflection of reality?

“Hmm, I can’t actually remember, because as I remember I’m no longer clear on whether that memory is a thought I’m creating right now or if that actually happened. Wow, it’s kind of scary if I think about it. Wait! Fear, that’s another “negative” emotion. I’ve learned what to do when those come. I simply imagine a better reality, a “future” where things feel better. Ahh... ”

“Now I notice another layer of thoughts has replaced the previous layer that was uncomfortable. This starts to make me feel uneasy, like there’s something wrong with this story, but I can’t remember how it started. I really want to stop for a moment and see what’s happening.”

Then a trusted person comes along, and then another, and they tell you, “Don’t look too close at what’s happening or how you got here. Don’t ruminate. You have to keep looking forward, imagining a better life, then chase that life to make it happen.”

“Oh, that’s right. I have to keep the thoughts going and changing this world into what I want it to be. That’s the key. Something still just doesn’t feel right about all of this... ”

The last piece of the puzzle with regard to the VR goggles is that we are not kept prisoner by force; we are kept prisoner by choice. We willingly interact with and engage the VR world. Well, we do at first, but very quickly that world swallows us up. At some point we get confused about whether it is me that is choosing these thoughts, or whether they are just coming automatically. After a time, we even forget that we ever actually entered this virtual world. By the time we start to recognize that it feels uncomfortable to be in here, we’ve already learned how to avoid that very discomfort using the thought system to purposely push ourselves farther into the house of mirrors. So ultimately, we learn to use the virtual reality system to avoid the truth that it’s fundamentally uncomfortable to be inside that system. We are now becoming an active supporter of the system that is imprisoning us.

A further trick we play on ourselves is forgetting that it is a choice to be in the house of mirrors in the first place. We’ve become identified with the thought system itself, meaning we feel compelled to defend its integrity and thus walk deeper and deeper into the house of mirrors that is made up of thought and belief. Each layer of delusional identity we add requires another layer of distorting beliefs to help us forget what it is to live in and as unfiltered reality. This in turn creates further reinforcement and defense of the lie we keep telling ourselves.

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